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Intuitively egoism and altruism are polar opposites. Egoism describes actions that are made in self-interests and has the intention of increasing your own benefits. Altruism, on the other hand, is described as selflessness; helping...
Every time I hear a story about the impacts of global warming, it mentions how it is the current generation’s grandkids’ problem. This is one of the things that makes the problem so hard...
Amazing Grace was written by a former slave trader John Newton.. Once sailing a ship full of slaves from Africa his ship was hit by a fierce storm… Newton feared for his life and...
In June of 1956, A few dozen scientists and mathematicians from all around the country gathered for a meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College. Most of them settled into the red-bricked Hanover Inn,...
The term, Son of man, is used by Jesus 80 times as a way to refer to himself (32 times in Matthew; 14 times in Mark; 26 times in Luke; and 10 times in a qualitatively different way from the Synoptic Gospels in John). We read that Jesus was...
1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and...
Even on the clearest, darkest night far from city lights, you can see only about 1% of the Milky Way galaxy’s 100 billion to 400 billion stars. Here’s the real trip though: For every star in...
IT does not matter how rich you are, how good your salary is or how well you are currently living, you could be poor and think you are rich same as people who think...
One of the furthest reaches of time we dare to predict is the end of the universe. As far as we know this is the end of not only life as we know it...
In other words, why are we even born if we are only to die some 70 or 80 years later? Isn’t there more to life than to say, “Eat, drink, and be merry for...
The Attention Schema Theory (AST), developed over the past five years, seeks to explain the evolution of consciousness, to determine its adaptive value, and to ask which animals are conscious and to which degree....
Your body and mind send you subtle warning signals that death is fast-approaching. You might start to notice your sense of smell isn’t what it used to be, or your bad breath just won’t go away...
Chances are, you’re busy hustling between the 40 hours a week you need to work, the family you need to provide for, and the bills that need to be paid. As the years...
Thirteen point eight billion years after its birth, our universe has awoken and become aware of itself. From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the...
The Holy Spirit is a beautiful and powerful part of who God is. We need Him in our life as a conduit to become who God created us to be, and through His power...
The Old Testament Apocrypha consists of eleven or twelve books, depending upon how they are divided, that the Roman Catholic Church adds to the Old Testament. The Protestants reject these books as Holy Scripture...
We all remember the nursery story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” We delight in telling our children and grandchildren about how Papa Bear’s porridge was too hot, Mama Bear’s porridge was too cold, but...
“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of...
The butterfly effect is an often misunderstood phenomenon wherein a small change in starting conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes. Understanding the butterfly effect can give us a new lens through which to...
It seems that there’s a corner for everyone despite what interest you have. Despite what your beliefs are. There’s someone or something out there that thinks the same way you do. The internet has...
Please note, the early church classified the seven deadly sins as cardinal sins or capital vices and taught that they could not be forgiven. However, according to the Bible these 7 deadly sins are...
Stoicism or Stoic Philosophy… The art of not giving a fuck. That perhaps sounds boring and daunting and like the last thing anyone would want to learn about. A few years back I would...
The concept of artificial intelligence, mind uploading, and a future “singularity” is immensely complex, uncertain, and could go any number of ways. This story is not intended to be educational or speculative on those...
As technology progresses, humans increasingly exploit resources of our home planet. One day, we might become an interplanetary species as imagined in The Expanse. One of the fundamental steps for that is to build reusable rockets,...
For most of us, the thought of dying is fraught with anxiety and helplessness as it signifies the end of everything. The fear of death arises due to ignorance about what happens to one...
Judgment Day. Also known as the Final Judgment. It is the very last thing that happens before God destroys the old heaven and the old earth, which are corrupt on account of sin. Before...